Every city has experienced a major disaster, some cities survived and learned from it, some did not. This project is going to find the biggest disaster from individual’s case city and explore how did resolve the problem ...

UC Berkley’s study found 60% of respondents reported upper extremity or neck pain attributed to computer use. The team’s goal is to create plug-and-play hardware designed to articulate automatically to a user to optimize ...

Pore pressure prediction provides an important risk assessment in the oil and gas industry. It is widely used to estimate the seal integrity, reservoir pressure compartmentalization, hydrocarbon column height, and to design ...

Calibration of the flexural resistance factors in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Official’s (AASHTO) Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) format is performed for bridge girders prestressed ...

Background: Science teachers’ perceptions about climate change can affect their instruction in the classroom. Teachers’ misconceptions about this topic can be problematic since scientifically inaccurate ideas may be ...

In the twentieth century, canned food became ubiquitous in the United States. As Americans moved to new environments, such as cities, food became more difficult to grow or catch, and people became dependant on food markets. ...

This study examines the relationships between principal decisions regarding school institutional processes and practices in high poverty high schools in one school district and the impact of those decisions on the high ...

Researchers have proposed only humans can understand that others have minds, and that this fact explains our distinctive abilities to learn language, cooperate politically, use tools and technology, and pass on a complex ...

A comparative study of multiple packaging was conducted to determine if foodservice packaging could be used as an intervention in preventing microbial growth on leftovers that are temperature abused. Aerobic plate counts ...

Exercise is increasingly becoming accepted as "medicine" for diseases of both brain and body. For the brain, exercise offers chemical, cellular and structural benefits, including enhanced generation of new neurons, glia ...

This work demonstrates how commonly ingested aromatic compounds (terpenes, flavonoids, and odorants) can induce physiological changes on the molecular level in brain regions implicated in high order information processing. ...

Most of our mental processes rely on memorization, and dysfunctions of memory systems can lead to severe perceptual, cognitive, and motor deficits. Although decades of research has accumulated a large knowledge base on ...

Tablet PC-based lecture videos are widely used by students at the University of Houston. The goal of the ICS (Indexed, Captioned, and Searchable) Videos Project is to enhance user experience and improve usability of classroom ...

The development of affordable and eco-friendly strategies for carbon dioxide sequestration has become a matter of paramount importance to reduce or mitigate the effects of global climate changes. Today, the most used ...

Climate change has been talked about a lot. Climate control is synonymous with an effort to reduce CO2 emissions or find ways to sequester it. One such method gaining mileage is CO2 sequestration into methane hydrates. ...

Organic molecules have not been positively identified by spacecraft missions on Mars. The extent of indigenous or meteoric contributions to organic molecules observed in Martian meteorites is also not well understood. The ...

The progress of our civilization is critically dependent on the discovery of new materials and structures with better properties, novel functionality and applications. The ultra thin metal overlayers represent one class ...

Past studies have demonstrated that carbon nanofiber aggregate (CNFA) to be self-sensing and can be embedded in concrete structures to monitor the strain due to external loading. In this study, CNFAs were embedded in 16 ...